Chapters 24-25 Summary

The FBI descends on the Wal-Mart store searching for Gaines. Reviewing the surveillance tapes at the store, they discover he has donned a disguise inside and left without being noticed, stealing a car in the parking lot. Kaiser, who is at the store with Glass, gets a cell phone call from Wheaton, who informs him that Gaines has come to the Tulane campus and is holding hostages in part of the art building.

They rush to the scene and see Gaines in an upstairs window, brandishing a gun which is pointed at Wheaton, who has offered himself as a hostage. Wheaton tries to take the gun from Gaines but cannot. He escapes the building, but Gaines takes two female students hostage threatening to kill them if he is not allowed to leave safely. Wheaton tells the investigators that Gaines claims he...